[wp-forums] Whomever edited GoogleTrademarks's post...

[Mika A Epstein]

It looked dubious to me too, until I emailed and got a response back via 
plugins.

At this point, Core and Plugins are looking into it. My personal 
feelings about Google in general remain exactly the same. Find hat, 
insert tinfoil.

(BTW - You can look at a user's email address, but that doesn't mean 
that's the one they signed up as. I can make mine mika at ottopress.com if 
I want and the only thing it impacts is my ability to recover a lost 
password. So as much as I want to say "hey! He had a google email!" 
that's not as concrete a check as I'd like it to be.)

esmi at quirm dot net wrote:
>
> on 16/07/2013 17:43 Joni Mueller said the following:
>>
>> Adsense may be copyrighted but how on earth does Google expect anyone
>> to know what the plugin does if adsense isn't anywhere in the name.
>> Are they throwing out the baby with the bathwater?
>
>
> Personally, I think Google's approach was/is highly unprofessional.
> Especially listing all of the plugins. It would have been far better
> if they'd made a more discrete enquiry first and asked if there was a
> contact point they could use. Whilst I don't condone the earlier
> response, I'm not surprised that the whole thing looked rather dubious
> at first glance,
>
> Mel